

The Callisto Protocol is set on the second-largest moon of Jupiter, Callisto, and in a space prison where something has gone horribly wrong. And sci-fi horror is where it’s at for me.” Image: Striking Distance/Krafton But it was time to get back to something that I just really love. I really loved making Advanced Warfare because it was a little in the future. I spent the last 10 years making Call of Duty, which has been really good to me. When I get to see a good one, it’s just gravy for me. “I’ll watch any horror movie no matter how bad … and with sci-fi, they can get pretty bad. It’s as close to a Dead Space spiritual successor as you can get without a raised eyebrow from Electronic Arts’ legal team, and it’s a return to the sci-fi horror genre that Schofield says he loves unequivocally. The Callisto Protocol got revealed at The Game Awards last Thursday. Schofield said PUBG Corp., now known as Krafton, gave him the OK, and they’ve largely left him alone over the past 18 months to create that studio and develop its debut game. He envisioned “the most terrifying game on next-gen platforms” when he made his pitch for The Callisto Protocol last year. “‘And here’s the game I’d like to make.’” “I went to them and said, ‘I’ll give you a game studio,’” Striking Distance founder and CEO Glen Schofield told Polygon in an interview this week. When the former executive producer of Dead Space, Visceral Games’ beloved sci-fi survival horror series, went to the people who make PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, he had a simple plan.
